Teachers are role models. Despite frustrations that may arise between a teacher and their students, educators should always model the behavior they expect the students to adopt as well.
“Don’t leave the class yourself to show your disapproval of student behavior. They need your consistent message that you will work through such problems as a group” (Cushman, 2003, p.51).
“Will the rich get smarter while the poor fall further behind? […] In a world where mental function can be tweaked with a pill, will our notion of “normal intelligence” be changed forever?”
This isn’t the tagline for a new Hollywood blockbuster about a magic pill. It’s the questions researchers are asking as brain-enhancing drugs are being developed and used more frequently.
Continue reading Is artificial intelligence just a pill away?
When you hear the phrase “teen mom,” is the first thing that pops into your head the MTV franchise?
“[…] they don’t ever say [anything] about the teenage girl that’s going to school, or just graduated high school, or just graduated college that was a teenage mom. They never say anything like that. They always put the bad news on television”
(Proweller, 2000, p. 111)
This week’s readings in Adolescents at School focused on trying to identify the differences in learning styles and academic success between boys and girls. Yet, as each piece seemed to conclude, these broad generalizations about gender do not apply to every student. I chose this week’s MVP precisely because it went against what I experience as a student:
“Boys have a natural learning tempo that is more action oriented and hands-on than girls,’ Pollack says, but because most curricula require students to work independently and quietly, many boys end up feeling like failure.” (Galley, 87).
“W.E.B. DuBois famously articulated the challenge of what he termed ‘double consciousness’ – a ‘sense of always looking at one’s self through the eyes of others, of measuring one’s soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity” (Doucet & Suarez-Orozco, 2006, p.169).
Adolescents are well versed in this “double consciousness,” and I would argue that this probably doesn’t vary much between immigrant and non-immigrant populations.